Chapter 2(4)()

The two followed the footprints step by step, slowly heading towards the deep forest. There were towering ancient trees around them. Although it was late autumn, the huge tree canopy still covered the sky and the sun. The more they walked forward, the more they felt that the surroundings were dark and difficult to tell. The stream was getting wider and wider. The heat coming out of the water surface and a little light from the branches ignited, shaking, illuminating the surrounding circle, and the two of them were also embarrassed.

Li Yuanfang took the fire to look at Di Renjie's face carefully, but did not see any abnormality. He breathed a sigh of relief. He looked around and saw a bunch of wormwood growing on the ground. He tore off most of his bunches, tore off the hem of his robe, rolled it with the bunches of wormwood, and used the folds of fire to make a simple torch. The torch was lit up and illuminated a lot of the surroundings.

Di Renjie had already sat up and looked at Li Yuanfang's busy work with praise. The life and death crisis just now seemed to have been thrown out of the sky.

Li Yuanfang lit a torch and looked up at Di Renjie. Seeing him smiling at him, he couldn't help but smile and asked, "Sir, why are you happy?"

"Yuan Fang, we are escaping from death, how can we be unhappy?"

Suddenly, Li Yuanfang screamed: "Blood! Sir, blood!"

Di Renjie was startled. He had never seen him so shocked. He didn't know what happened. Looking at Li Yuanfang staring at the front of his clothes, he looked down and saw that his chest was covered with red! Di Renjie was also a little confused for a moment. He fell heavily just now, and his bones were sore all over his body, but he didn't feel any injuries in his chest? Li Yuanfang reached out, as if he wanted to check where the wound was, but his hands were shaking violently, and his eyes turned red immediately.

Seeing Li Yuanfang like this, Di Renjie was no longer nervous. He calmed down and touched it himself. Blood was stuck, but there was no crack on his clothes. He looked around again, and the dripping blood stains from his chest to his arms to his shoulders and to the ground... He raised his head suddenly, and a stream of blood was flowing along the back of Li Yuanfang's head and headed to his shoulders. Di Renjie said with a "Oh" and said, "Yuanfang! It's you! Touch quickly, is it that the stone in the back of his head smashed?"

Li Yuanfang reached out and touched the back of her neck, her hands were covered in blood, and she breathed out and said, "It's okay, it's my blood."

Di Renjie was both angry and distressed: "I think you were fooled by the stone. Don't you even know the pain?"

Li Yuanfang smiled and frowned and said, "There are too many places that hurt, and I can't figure it out."

Di Renjie lowered his head and lifted up his robe, tore off a long strip of cloth from the lining of the white silk shirt. He was about to bandage Li Yuanfang's wound, but Li Yuanfang took out a small paper bag from his arms like a magic trick, and swayed in front of Di Renjie: "Sir, I have medicine."

Di Renjie carefully applied medicine for him, wrapped the wound, and then checked it roughly from top to bottom. Fortunately, all the scratches were scratched and there were no major wounds, so he breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at him again, a strip of white cloth wrapped around his neck several times, looking stupid, and couldn't help laughing.

Li Yuanfang knew that Di Renjie was laughing at him, rolled his eyes at him, and muttered: "You really laughed. If it weren't for your physique, I wouldn't have been troublesome to change to you, why would it be so embarrassing?" Di Renjie laughed even more happily and said: "Yuanfang, we just encountered so many dangerous situations, but you blamed my physique at this moment, which is a bit unreasonable. Hahaha." Li Yuanfang said angrily: "I'm unreasonable? I think you, the dignified prime minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty, are the most unreasonable to me. Okay, just laugh slowly. I'll go find an exit."

Di Renjie stopped him and said, "Yuan Fang, you have just shed so much blood, take a rest and move."

"It's okay. You can't stay here for a long time. We have to find a way out quickly." Li Yuanfang jumped up, held the Youlan Sword tightly in his hand, and turned around in place.

"Strange." He whispered.

"Strange." Di Renjie also whispered.

The two looked at each other and smiled. Li Yuanfang put the sword aside, lifted the hem of the robe, and sat cross-legged beside Di Renjie. They all looked up at a crack on the rock wall on the top of the cave not far ahead. The crack was dripping with water droplets, and the surrounding mist was simmering. The water droplets fell quite quickly, forming a puddle on the ground, and there was also heat on the puddle. Following the uneven ground, the water in the puddle flowed all over the ground, so the entire ground in the cave was wet. Di Renjie reached out to touch the water traces on the ground, and said, "This water is so hot."

"Sir, it's late autumn now, and the mountain spring should be cold and terrible. But what we've just followed is a hot spring."

"Yes, this is the water of a hot spring, which comes from deep underground, so it carries a strange heat. It is not too rare to say that there is this hot spring in this Taihang Mountain area. It is just that we were following the footprints next to the hot spring water and encountered evil dogs and rocks. Now we fell into this cave, but we didn't expect to encounter a hot spring again."

"Sir, is this the same spring?"

"It's very likely. And you see that the cave is seeping water from the top of the cave, so we're probably still under the hot spring."

"Under the hot spring? Then, what should we do? Where should we go?"

"Yuanfang, don't worry. There should be a way out if there is water flow. Let's explore along the cracks on the top of the cave, and we will surely find some directions."

Li Yuanfang helped Di Renjie up, and the two of them walked slowly along the water traces on the top of the cave. The water flowed very much, but it was always continuous. After walking for about half an hour, you could hear the sound of water rushing in front of you getting louder and louder, so you speeded up and walked for about a quarter of an hour. A large hole suddenly appeared in front of you, and a large stream of hot spring water poured down from above, forming a natural waterfall curtain.

Li Yuanfang stood in front of the waterfall and said worriedly: "If I were alone in this place, I might be able to try to go out, but I will bring you..."

Di Renjie didn't say anything, and groped up and down around the cave entrance alone, and suddenly called out in a low voice: "Yuan Fang, come and see."

Li Yuanfang leaned over and took a look. On the stone wall next to the entrance of the cave, there was another small hole that had just been allowed to pass by. He raised the torch and stretched out to look at it. He could actually see a carved path stretching down the cave. Li Yuanfang excitedly said to Di Renjie: "Sir, it seems that there is a door this time. I'll go in first, you can follow."

The path was very cramped, and Li Yuanfang could still move freely. Di Renjie walked around the ground and was sweating profusely. He finally twisted around and climbed about a hundred steps down. A wooden cover appeared above his head. Li Yuanfang raised the orchid sword and poked it without any effort. The wooden cover rolled out. Li Yuanfang jumped gently and jumped out of the hole. With a bang, Di Renjie hurriedly asked, "Yuanfang, what's wrong?" Li Yuanfang's head appeared at the hole again, leaned over to pull Di Renjie, and said, "It's okay, sir, come out."

Di Renjie climbed out of the cave panting. It turned out that there was a bed above it, which had been lifted up by Li Yuanfang by the wall. Looking around, it was a dark room, with nothing but a bed and a table and chair. Li Yuanfang kicked open the door, and the two walked out of the room, stood on the open space in front of the door, took a deep breath of fresh air in the mountains, but saw the moonlight quietly scattering on the grass and trees. It turned out that they had been tossing for a whole afternoon, and it was already evening.
Chapter completed!